Remember the Lord Your God
1 All the commandments which I am giving you this day, you shall take care to observe, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 You shall remember all the ways in which the Lord your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3 He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you had not known of, nor did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothing did not grow old on you, nor did your foot swell, these 40 years.
5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. 6 You shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to fear him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity. You shall not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. 10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which he has given you.
11 Beware lest you forget the Lord your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am giving you today, 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them, 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 15 who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and that he might prove you, to do good for you in the end; 17 and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” 18 But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
19 It shall be, if you shall forget the Lord your God and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations that the Lord causes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.